Need to change video driver

carpenter · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

Be gentle, my first almost working install. I have a dell p-3 with intel video.
When I Run "startx" I got 2 errors, 1st is, " intel (0): given bpp (32) is not supported by i810 driver" 2nd, "screen found, none have a usable configuration."
I have emerged x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa.
Now if I reboot it loads vesa
If I run "Xorg -configure" Loads the intel i810 driver, that does not work.
If I use "xorgcfg -textmode" I either get a useless fuzzy screen or my monitor displays a message "this mode not supported"
The specs below Is what I am using But, These specs include a speaker, my monitor does not have a speaker and the specs are not working. I haven't been able to find more info.
I want to use Xorg -configure without it loading the i810 driver, to auto detect the monitor. With out portato, I do not know the full name of module to remove.
Hope someone can make sense out of this post, feel like a dog chasing its tail.

MAG innovision 22" wide screen LT2219WDB
Display Area 473.8mm x 296.1mm (18.7" x 11.7")
Max. Resolution 1680 x 1050
Horizontal Freq. 30~ 82 KHz
Vertical Freq. 56~ 76 Hz
Bandwidth (MHz) 146 MHz

Aelf · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

I suggest you try using xorgconfig instead. It is a simple text based program where you manually fill in the info about your display hardware, graphics card etc. I have never been able to get the semi automatic utilities to work well. xorgconfig on the other hand seems to do the trick (even though it is somewhat geeky).
/A

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: Need to change video driver

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

Here some settings of the xorg.conf from my Kubuntu laptop that has the same chipset. I removed the font path settings since they aren't they same as Gentoo's.

carpenter · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

Thanks, I unmerged the i810 driver. The driver unmerged OK, But gave 2 warnings.
INPUT-DEVICES="keyboard mouse" not a valid identifier,
VIDEO-CARDS="intel", not a valid identifier.
These are the settings as I wrote them in make.conf, Looks like I have some reading to do.
After running "Xorg -configure, now loads vga driver. After testing I receive these errors.
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented (??) unknown
(EE) AIGLX: screen 0 is not DRI capable

Back to the man pages

schuay · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

carpenter · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

I changed the make.conf settings to underscores, then re-emerged the intel driver. Still does not work, now I cant get it to load the intel driver. I am going to try a new install.
Not because I am frustrated, (I am) Truth is I run a kvm switch, I pulled a dell 3.2 HT with 2 gigs ram and 2 80 gig ide running sabayon.
I did not have enough faith I would make it as far as I did, and did not want to hose a perfectly good install.
I believe I can get it now. BYE, BYE, sabayon. (I am a carpenter, have no training with computers, self taught)
The other box on the kvm is a home built, gigabyte mobo, Q6700, 4 gigs ram, 160 gig sata running kubuntu.
Cheers.